91.550 Multi-Touch Computing - Spring 2012

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Announcements

• Welcome to Multi-Touch Computing!
• Projects from Spring 2011 class

Class Meetings

Tuesdays from 2:00-4:30 in Olsen 402

Office Hours

Tuesdays 12:00-1:30 and 4:30-5:30 as well as by appointment

TA Info

Eric McCann
Office hours on Thursdays from 3:00-4:00 and by appointment
Contact info on syllabus

Software

If you did not get an installation disk from Eric in class, contact him to get one.

Handouts

2/28/2012:

• Final project information

2/7/2012:

• Lab 3, due 21 February 2012

1/31/2012:

• Lab 2, due 7 February 2012
• How Do I...?
• WPF Quick Start
• WPF Intro
• XNA Quick Start

1/24/2012:

• Syllabus
• Assignment 1, due on 1/31/2012
• Lab 1, due on 1/31/2012
• Surface Intro Documentation, for Lab 1
• Recommendations for C# and WPF books

Readings

Week 9: Different Form Factors
(Handed out 3/20/2012, for class on 3/27/2012)

• Hrvoje Benko, Beyond Flat Surface Computing: Challenges of Depth-Aware and Curved Interfaces, MM09, October 19-24, 2009, Beijing, China.

Week 8: Group Interaction and Evaluating Multi-Touch Interaction
(Handed out 3/6/2012, for class on 3/20/2012)

• Carl Gutwin and Saul Greenberg, The Mechanics of Collaboration: Developing Low Cost Usability Evaluation Methods for Shared Workspaces, IEEE 9th International Workshop on Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises (WET-ICE'00), June 14-16, 2000, Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA.
• Cheryl A. Bolstad and Mica R. Endsley, Choosing Team Collaboration Tools: Lessons from Disaster Recovery Efforts, Ergonomics in Design: The Quarterly of Human Factors Applications, Volume 13, Number 4, Fall 2005, pp. 7-14.
• Jonathan Grudin, Why CSCW Applications Fail: Problems in the Design and Evaluation of Organizational Interfaces, Proceedings of the Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), ACM Press, pp. 85-93.
• Herbert H. Clark and Susan A. Brennan, Grounding in Communication, In L.B. Resnick, J.M. Levine, & S.D. Teasley (Eds.), Perspectives on socially shared cognition, Chapter 7, APA Books, 1991.

Week 7: NASA Multi-touch
(Handed out 2/28/2012, for class on 3/6/2012)
There are two papers for this week:

• the first and
• the second.

Week 6: Designing GUIs for multi-touch
(Handed out 2/21/2012, for class on 2/28/2012)

• Daniel Wigdor, Gerald Penn, Kathy Ryall, Alan Esenther, and Chia Shen, Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table, IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-computer Systems, October 2007.
• Stacey D. Scott, M. Sheelagh T. Carpendale, and Kori M. Inkpen, Territoriality in Collaborative Tabletop Workspaces, CSCW-04, November 6-10, 2004, Chicago, Illinois.
• Mark Hancock and Sheelagh Carpendale, Supporting Multiple Off-Axis Viewpoints at a Tabletop Display, Second Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '07), 2007.
• Yvonne Rogers and Sian Lindley. Collaborating Around Large Interactive Displays: Which Way Is Best To Meet?, Interacting with Computers, Volume 16, Issue 6, pp. 1133-1152, December 2004.

Week 5: Designing Gesture Sets
(Handed out 2/14/2012, for class on 2/21/2012)

• Jacob O. Wobbrock, Meredith Ringel Morris, and Andrew D. Wilson, User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing, CHI 2009, Boston, MA, April 4-9, 2009.
• Mike Wu, Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines, and Ravin Balakrishnan, Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces, Proceedings of the First IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computer Systems (TABLETOP '06), 2006.
• Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Amanda Courtemanche, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco, Analysis of Natural Gestures for Controlling Robot Teams on Multi-touch Tabletop Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Banff, Alberta, November 23-25, 2009.
• Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, Eric McCann, Adam Norton, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco. Design and Validation of Two-Handed Multi-Touch Tabletop Controllers for Robot Teleoperation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, CA, February 13-16, 2011.

Week 4: Ergonomics and Usability
(Handed out 2/7/2012, for class on 2/14/2012)

• J. Nielsen, Iterative User Interface Design, IEEE Computer 26, 11 (November), 32-41, 2003.
• Michael Nielsen, Moritz Storring, Thomas B. Moeslund, and Erik Granum, A Procedure for Developing Intuitive and Ergonomic Gesture Interfaces for Man-Machine Interaction, Technical Report CVMT 03-01, ISSN 1601-3646, CVMT, Aalborg University, March, 2003
• Kathy Ryall, Meredith Ringel Morris, Katherine Everitt, Clifton Forlines and Chia Shen, Experiences with and Observations of Direct-Touch Tabletops, MERL TR2005-108, October 2005.

Week 3: Multi-Touch Technologies
(Handed out 1/31/2012, for class on 2/7/2012)

• Jefferson Y. Han, Low-Cost Multi-Touch Sensing through Frustrated Total Internal Reflection, UIST '05, October 23-27, 2005, Seattle, Washington, USA.
• Johannes Schoning, Peter Brandl, Florian Daiber, Florian Echtler, Otmar Hilliges, Jonathan Hook, Markus Lochtefeld, Nima Motamedi, Laurence Muller, Patrick Olivier, Tim Roth, and Ulrich von Zadow, Multi-Touch Surfaces: A Technical Guide, 2008.

Week 2: Usability and Feedback
(Handed out 1/24/2012, for class on 1/31/2012)

• Multi-Touch Systems that I have Known and Loved - Bill Buxton, Microsoft Research
• Daniel Wigdor, Sarah Williams, Michael Cronin, Robert Levy, Katie White, Maxim Mazeev, and Hrvoje Benko (2009). Ripples: Utilizing Per-Contact Visualization to Improve User Interaction with Touch Displays. In Proceedings of ACM User Interface Software and Technology (UIST '09), pp. 3-12.